Speech Technology Magazine sat down with Thomas G. "Tom" Smith, group manager of IVR/speech product marketing, Verizon Business to discuss his new role as well as the goals and initiatives for Verizon Business.

>Accoona Corp., an artificial intelligence-based online search engine, and Acapela Group launched text-to-speech technology that will enable online users to highlight English-language text on the Internet to be read aloud in English. >